SHORT-WEIGHT TEA.
A MERCHANT FINED.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night.
A tea merchant, Cyril Augustus Paque, who had carried on business under the name of the Pearson Trading Co., pleaded guilty to having sold tea bearing a false statement “£lb nett,’ purporting to indicate the weight of tea. It was stated that, of twelve packets weighed by an expert, tho nett shortage in weight was found to be 7oz. 14 drachms. It had also been ascertained that no less than 112 packets did not contain the correct weight. In a letter, defendant stated that under weight packages had been made up by an assistant who was ill and this was probably an explanation. It had not been done knowingly. Defendant, who was present, asked the Magistrate to take a lenient view of tho case. He had not offended wittingly, and new scales were being procured. “Poor people buy these small packages,” observed His Worship, “and 1 think there must have been something very wrong with defendant’s conduct of his business, if he did not know that short-weight packages were being made up. It was only a small business, and it would have been easy to keep in touch with things to see that there was no short weight. I will impose a substantial penalty of £25.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16112, 28 April 1923, Page 6
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